Make a Christmas card to go with your Grandparents’ Christmas gift. A cheap Christmas gift for your grandparents may be inexpensive, but if homemade it will be from the heart. They will appreciate gifts that reflect the holiday season, your talents and photographs of you. Package the gift with festive ribbons as part of the fun in receiving a gift is wondering what’s inside the wrapping.
Create a CD of their lives together as you gather pictures from your parents’ childhood, including aunts and uncles, all the grandchildren and their wedding photos. Set it to music they enjoy, easily discovered by turning on their car radio or thumbing through their music collection. Make a family tree and use as many Christmas pictures as you can find by placing them next to the names. Framing a picture of you visiting Santa, your latest school picture in a Santa frame or make a photo Christmas ornament featuring you with your grandparents.
A homemade gift doesn’t cost much and allows you to personalize your gift. Create a cinnamon candle by melting wax, letting it cool and rolling strips like a jelly roll or take a plain red tape and melt green colored wax down the side for a multicolored Christmas candle. Or make a model car from a kit which resembles the one they now drive or make their first car as a couple for a gift. A watercolor of a Christmas scene or of a winter theme works well. Appeal to their sweet tooth and place a dozen fresh cookies into a festive Christmas tin.
Make your grandparents a holiday gift basket featuring Christmas movie DVDs and CDs, Christmas snacks, microwave popcorn, hot chocolate and a couple of Christmas mugs with your picture on them. Another option is filling a gift basket with books and magazine subscriptions for their hobbies such as golf, fishing, knitting or crafting. Or give them a gardening basket filled with seeds, a small trowel, gardening gloves, a sun hat and a garden plaque designed by you with your handprint.